Book Review: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger

Odie O’Banion and his brother Albert are orphans living in the Lincoln School of 1932 Minnesota. It is a cruel place in which hundreds of Native American children were placed and “educated” (a.k.a. forced to have their hair cut, and their language, clothing, and beliefs changed.) Odie, Albert, their best friend Mose, and a young girl named Emmy escaped from the school and set forth in a canoe to find Odie’s and Albert’s aunt in St. Louis. This book shared the author’s storytelling talent he showed in Saving Grace. It seemed like an adult version of The Boxcar Children.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Ordinary Grace, also by William Kent Krueger.]

[ official This Tender Land page on the official William Kent Krueger web site ]

Recommended by Jodi R.
Anderson and Bethany Branch Libraries

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